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Date:      Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:01:54 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PowerEdge 1850
Message-ID:  <20041004190154.GA98373@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20041004135545.M61493@wcborstel.nl>
References:  <1096891159.95899.15.camel@ramses> <20041004135545.M61493@wcborstel.nl>

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On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 04:03:03PM +0200, Jorn Argelo wrote:
> Anyway, if I get it right it runs an dual Xeon with EM64T. If you want to use
> that you will need the AMD64 port of FreeBSD 5.2.1. I'm not sure if EM64T is
> backwards compatible with the x86 instruction code, so 4.10 will not be an
> option. The main problem will be the RAID controller. SMP on 5.2.1 is also not
> really top notch AFAIK. 

The AMD64 and EM64T chips start in a x86 compatible mode, so both
will run 4.10 fine. I'm writing this from a 2850 now, running
4.10-STABLE.

	David.



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